Maternity Services Registered Nurse Clinical Leader 36hrs 7pm to 7am

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 36

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Up to 20,000 sign on bonus!

The Clinical Leader is a Registered Nurse and front-line leader, who in addition to providing
direct patient care as needed, collaborates with the Nurse Manager to direct nursing care,
coordinate resources for a specified unit, and perform administrative activities while providing
leadership and support to staff. Under the direction of the Nurse Manager, s/he creates an
environment conducive to maintaining established standards of practice and functions within
policies, practice guidelines and nursing standards of Sturdy Health in accordance with the
Massachusetts Nurse Practice Act, CDC and OSHA standards, and any other applicable
regulatory or accreditation agency

Education/Training

• Bachelor’s degree in nursing

Licenses/Certification:

• Current Massachusetts state RN license

• All RNs must have current BLS certification

• ACLS is required with BLS for RN positions on the following units/departments:

   Telemetry, ICU, ED, Cardiac Rehab, Endoscopy, LDRP, PACU, Med/Surg

• NRP and Intermediate Fetal Monitoring is required with ACLS and BLS for RNs on

   LDRP

• PALS is required with ACLS and BLS for RNs on PACU and ED

   Job

Required Qualifications and Skills:

• Minimum of 2 years of Clinical Nursing experience in acute care setting

• Excellent quality of Nursing Care as part of a comprehensive care team

• Excellent communication and customer services skills required.

• Successful completion of orientation and annual competencies.

• Must meet all criteria associated with responsibilities detailed in this document and the

   core/unit specific competencies for registered nurses.

Preferred Qualifications and Skills:

• Minimum of 5 years of Clinical Nursing experience preferred

• Advanced certification in applicable area

Essential Job Functions:

• Must possess excellent interpersonal communication skills, command of verbal and written

   English; good organizational skills, and adaptability, creating positive relationships with

   patients and families, themself, and colleagues, including the nursing department and the

   hospital as whole.

Professional Governance

• Collaborates and supports the health care team in the delivery of quality and fiscally

  responsible patient-focused care as evidenced by providing/directing nursing care throughout

  the life span with consideration of the aging process developmental and cultural patterns in

  each step of the nursing process.

• Facilitates an interdisciplinary approach to patient care, patient flow, staffing, resource

  utilization, and problem solving on a given shift.

• Monitors and evaluates the assignment of patient care to the appropriate nursing personnel

  based on patient needs and acuity level.

• Provides guidance regarding patient care and other job-related requirements.

• Participates in quality assessment and improvement programs to evaluate effectiveness of

  care delivered.

• Enhances unit behaviors through encouragement of education implementation of new

  concepts and technology.

• Provides leadership in the development of policies procedures standards of care and critical

  paths to promote positive patient outcomes.

• Collaborates on development of unit staffing schedule to provide a fiscally sound and safe

  staffing pattern which meets patient and family needs and expectations.

• Facilitates, stimulates, and evaluates human resources to provide quality, cost-efficient

  patient care by staffing the patient care unit to meet patient needs based on the ANA staffing

  principles or the appropriate staffing principles for the specialty area.

• Effectively utilizes resources to develop cost efficient delivery of high-quality services and

  patient care.

• Documents and communicates staff performance with recommendations for quality and

  growth.

• Identifies and resolves nursing care conflicts related to the unit.

• Collaborates with Nursing Faculty and students to meet educational needs.

• Participates in the staff recruitment and retention process.

• Monitors and adjusts staffing and scheduling as needed.

• Contributes to the organizational plan for development of short and long-term goals by

  providing unit leadership coverage in collaboration with the Nurse Manager directing and

  supervising unit staff and communicating the status of unit operations activities and issues to

  the Nurse Manager or appropriate discipline.

• Participates in unit meetings and recommends patient care/fiscal objectives